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Chennai , Feb. 3

GATI Ltd has started a direct voyage from Chennai to Yangoon. Its first vessel Gati Suvidha will sail with 377 twenty-foot equivalent units.

With this direct service, Gati has reduced the transit time between the two destinations from 20 days to five days, said a company official. The service would help the movement of pulses towards India. For instance, in 2004, about 6,000 containers of pulses came to Chennai from Yangoon, and the number of shipments is increasing every month. Due to the absence of a direct shipping service, containers were transhipped at Port Kelang or Singapore, the official said.

Gati Suvidha will call at the Chennai Container Terminal every ten days. The service will be augmented in the near future with an additional vessel.

This is the first step in a large programme of extending direct shipping services from Chennai to Chittagong and other Bay of Bengal and Andaman sea ports, says a company press release.

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